Every year the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival manages to deliver one of the most exciting lineups of the year, featuring the best in bluegrass, old time and folk artists from around the country and around the world.

The month has only just begun but we already have the details of the next Bluegrass @ Yulli’s, set to take place on Wednesday 23rd August.

The monthly Sydney jam and performance night will this month feature rootsy honky tonk trio Gareth Rowan and The Crazy Fools. The trio, made up of Gareth Rowan, Gary Brown and Jamie Sampson, will be bringing their own brand of western swing, hillbilly and country music to Yulli’s and are guaranteed to delight.

As always the feature band will be proceeded by an all in jam where you’re encouraged to bring your banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin, fiddle or whatever and enjoy some pickin’ and singin’. The jam kicks off at 6pm with Gareth Rowan and The Crazy Fools taking to the stage at 8pm.

Legendary string band Old Crow Medicine Show have announced plans to head to Australia at the end of September for a quick tour.

The band will be touring their tribute to Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde album (which they recently released as an album titled 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde) with shows planned in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne plus an appearance at the Caloundra Music Festival.

The stage has been set for the July edition of Bluegrass @ Yulli’s and you’re all invited to come and see some amazing music.

The regular jam and performance night has announced the 19th July as its next date and boy do they have goodies in store.

As always Bluegrass @ Yulli’s kicks off with an all-in am where you’re encouraged to bring your banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin, fiddle or whatever you can get your hands on and join in on the action.

Then at 8pm local trio (and Bluegrass @ Yulli’s regulars) Shelley’s Murder Boys take to the stage to keep you entertained with their own brand of old time and bluegrass music. They’ll also be putting the finishing on their upcoming EP Troubled Thoughts Keep Her Fed (due the 1st August) so expect some sweet sweet music.

Like this:

Sydney bluegrass jam night Bluegrass @ Yulli’s hits its mid year stride with the announcement of their June event.

Taking place on the 21st June the next edition of Bluegrass @ Yulli’s will feature The Flat Rock Boys the fun, uplifting collaboration between Mark Stevens (The Crooked Fiddle Band, Fat Bastards), Antony Mutch (Fat Bastards) and Gordon Wallace (The Crooked Fiddle Band).

As always the night will kick off at 6pm with an all-invited jam session before the band takes the stage from 8pm.

Ok, I may have just found my favourite video of 2017. Or maybe I’m just getting nostalgic for Sydney’s inner west. Either way you’re going to love “Long Time Travelling” from The Morrisons.

Shot in the back streets of Newtown and featuring the angelic harmonies of Georgia Mooney (All Our Exes Live In Texas), this a cappella track is taken from The Morrisons‘ recently released debut album.

“I love harmony singing! It’s my favourite thing to do in music,” Jimmy Daley from The Morrisons told Timber and Steel. “I wrote this song whilst traveling around China. I’m not sure where the tune came from but I’d just been humming it to myself the entire trip. The melody has a very pentatonic “asian” quality to it, perhaps it just seeped into my subconscious. We then went up to Inner Mongolia and the lyrics just poured out. It’s an incredible landscape but at the same time it’s marred by destruction and rapid urban development. Like the rest of China it’s a place of insane contrast. I remember sitting waiting for a bus and looking around me at this desolate construction site wasteland and seeing that just over the horizon cows and horses were roaming across the stunning Mongolian steppe the same way they had for centuries. The same grasslands on which Genghis Khan rode his horse. It was bizarre.”

The latest single from Melbourne based bluegrass and Americana duo The Weeping Willows is the incredibly catchy “The Pale Rider”. This is the third single from the duo’s latest album Before Darkness Comes A-Callin’ and features some amazing Appalachian-inspired banjo work from Andrew Wrigglesworth.

This month Sydney bluegrass and old-time jam night Bluegrass @ Yulli’s is kicking off Easter early with a show this Wednesday 12th April.

As always with Bluegrass @ Yulli’s the first two hours from 6pm is an all-in jam where you’re encouraged to bring your banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin, fiddle or whatever you can get your hands on and join in on the action.

Then from 8pm US band The Galax Bogtrotters, from the musically rich region surrounding Galax, Virgina, will be taking to the stage with their unique brand of high energy dance tunes.